Best Fall Baking Recipes: Indulge in Cozy Options Like Pumpkin Bread and Muffins

With a familiar nip in the air, as you start to fish out warmer clothes from your cupboard, your heart, too, starts to long to don your apron and bake the best fall baking recipes that make you feel like a character right out of an Old English tale. With the dishes outlined in these recipes, you can prepare a dessert spread representative of the spirit of the season – the moist, delicious depth of flavor from the pumpkin puree, and the understated simplicity of the classic muffin.

Pumpkin Bread

Baking good homemade bread can help one unwind, unleash their creativity, and spend quality time with their family and friends. But making pumpkin bread is just a little more special, because as a baker, one would “need to taste” the batter as many times as they have to.

Ingredients:

• 450 gm flour
• 300 gm sugar
• A pinch of salt
• 11 gm baking powder
• 3 gm cinnamon
• 4 gm nutmeg
• 2 gm ginger
• 235 gm pumpkin puree
• 122 ml vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 125 ml buttermilk
  
  

Method:

1. First, you have to preheat the oven to 180°C. Remember to always position a rack in the center of your oven so that your cake bakes evenly.
2. Then, you have to whisk together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger in a bowl.
3. Now, you have to whisk together pumpkin puree, vegetable oil, eggs, and buttermilk until smooth in another bowl.
4. Next, you need to fold the wet ingredients into the dry ones till they are combined, but be careful so that it is not overmixed. With pumpkin bread, you want the texture to resemble cake more than bread.
5. After that, you can pour the batter into a greased loaf pan.
6. Next, you have to bake it for 50-60 minutes.
7. Let it cool in the pan for 10 minutes, and then transfer from the pan to a wire rack and let it cool completely.
8. Before serving, you can sprinkle some confectioners' sugar on top of the sliced bread pieces. You can also sprinkle some additional pumpkin spice on the bread to reinforce the flavor. You can also serve this bread with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream for a decadent after-dinner dessert.

Using fresh pumpkin puree can make a big difference in the flavor of pumpkin bread. However, you are not familiar with the taste of raw pumpkin puree, you can even roast slices of pumpkin in the oven the night before till they become soft, mushy and dark. Then puree the slices in a kitchen mixer until it’s become completely smooth. Then, sprinkle pumpkin spice and cinnamon powder into the puree and refrigerate overnight.

Muffins

Muffins were discovered in 18th-century England and were consumed as small, flat, bread-like cakes which were cooked on a griddle.

Ingredients:

• 371 gm flour
• 222 gm sugar
• A pinch of salt
• 4 gm baking powder
• 101 gm unsalted butter, melted
• 152 ml milk
• 3 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 75 gm Bournville dark chocolate
• 135 gm buttercream

Method:

1. First, you have to preheat the oven to 200°C, and line a muffin tin with paper liners.
2. Then, you have to sift together flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder, making sure to get all of the dry ingredients well integrated.
3. Now, you have to whisk together melted butter, milk, eggs, and vanilla extract until everything is a homogeneous mix.
4. Next, you have to add the wet ingredients slowly to the dry mixture, and mix until they are combined. Here too, the aim is to not overmix the ingredients.
5. After that, you can divide the muffin batter evenly among the muffin cups, and bake for 20-25 minutes or slightly more.
6. Now, you have to remove the muffins from the oven, and let them cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
7. Then, you need to let them cool entirely on a wire rack.
8. Before serving, top them with chocolate shards or buttercream.

You can incorporate chopped nuts or chocolate chips in your muffin batter for some great texture and extra flavor in the muffins. If you want, you can replace some of the sugar with honey or maple syrup to make them fudgier. Additionally, dried fruits like cranberries and raisins make your muffins even more autumnal.

On the other hand, if you like your desserts to not have an overpowering sweetness, you can even experiment with adding cinnamon or nutmeg powder into the batter.